Posted on Jun 8, 2022
Neonicotinoids: The Toxic Pesticide That’s Killing Bees and Threatening Global Food Security
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1LT Voyle Smith
As Brother Dale says below, it does not bode well for pollination. Pesticides have their place in our economy, but their use must be carefully controlled. Herbicides also have their place in our society, but they can cause irreparable harm to future generations. The one known today as Agent Orange was intended to deny the VC and NVA the cover and concealment afforded by the thick vegetation surrounding US and Allied military installations in the Republic of Vietnam in the 1960s; but I was one of those USArmy soldiers who experienced long-lasting health problems due to prolonged exposure to those herbicides. My Parkinson’s disease is directly attributed to that exposure, according to the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Now, at the age of 80 years, I’m stuck in a wheelchair all day and must take medications every
six hours. I have heard rumors that the US Government has been paying reparations to the Vietnamese government for the long term damage to the health and economy of the Vietnamese people.
six hours. I have heard rumors that the US Government has been paying reparations to the Vietnamese government for the long term damage to the health and economy of the Vietnamese people.
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Pesticides are killling the hardest working creatures in the animal kingdom . European honeybees pollinate all flowering plants in North America and quietly form the basis of our entire agricultural community. The bees only live a few days and.like really work themselves to death. Some hurry yesrs ago, I bought an old house in a rural suburb of Santonio,!and found three producing honeybee hives under a cluster of small live oak trees in our backyard. Rather than destroy it hem, I read books on them and learned to work with them to harvest their honey. Over a period of 20 or so years, I acquired five more hives, with each populated by 20,009 to 30,000 bees. They left their homes at daybreak each
Morning and returned at dusk with their hairy little legs covered in pollen. Other worker bees would strip the pollen from their legs and prepare the bees for the next days’ work. I learned to respect them and keep their houses clean and they tolerated my presence , allowing me to handle them without a sting.
Morning and returned at dusk with their hairy little legs covered in pollen. Other worker bees would strip the pollen from their legs and prepare the bees for the next days’ work. I learned to respect them and keep their houses clean and they tolerated my presence , allowing me to handle them without a sting.
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